The Sun. — London, England, 1838-12-25 00:00:00

LORD MELBOURNE AND SIR FRANCIS HEAD. The Hall, Atherstone, Dec. 12, 1838. My Lord—Your Lordship is aware that when my re tirement from the Government of Upper Canada was made known in that province, both houses of the Provincial Par liament petitioned me to lay before them the correspondence with her Majesty's Secretary of State for the Colonies which had led to my resignation. Feeling that giving publicity to these documents might embarrass the policy of her Majesty's Government, and might also embarrass the new measures which new Go vernors were on the point of carrying into effect, I de clined to comply with the request of the Legislature, and accordingly retired from my post in silence, since which time I have declined to take any part in politics, and have studiously avoided saying or doing anything which could directly or indirectly embarrass your Lordship's adminis tration. As Lord Durham's experimental measures have, how ever, now ended by his return, as his Lordship has declared his intention of divulging his opinions, and as the opinions of Lord Gosford and of the Commissioners of Inquiry who preceded Lord Durham have already been frankly thrown before the country, I feel, that as several millions have been spent in vainly attempting to search for the truth, the outline of my opinions and policy, as contained in my de spatches, ought, even in justice to my own character, to be no longer withheld from the public. I am perfectly sensible that in both Houses of the Impe rial Parliament many who are politically opposed to y ou r Lordship, agreeing in the justness of my request, would no t refuse in their places to ask of her Majesty's Government that my desire to lay before the country my own calm de liberate policy and opinions upon important questions, as explained in my despatches, should be granted ; but as I had much sooner make those opinions known with the liberal approbation of her Majesty's Government than attain my object by seeking assistance from any party, I respect fully request of'your Lordship that her Majesty's Govern ment will, now that Lord Durham has returned, be pleased to allow me to vindicate my own conduct on retiring from the Government of Upper Canada, and to make known to the public the reasons which induced me to inform her Majesty's Secretary of State in my despatch No. (—), dated (—), 1836, " that I did not agree with the Commis sioners of Inquiry, and that, as regarded their policy, I had not an idea in common with them." I have the honour to remain, very respectfully, Your Lordship's most obedient humble servant, To Lord Melbourne, &c. Downing-street, Dec. 18, 1838. F. B. HEAD. Sir; I beg leave to acknowledge your letter of the 12th inst. It is for you to pursue any course that you may consider to be open to you, but it is impossible for me, in the discharge of my public duty, to sanction by my previous approval a step so unusual and liable to so much objection. I have the honour to remain, Sir, Your faithful and obedient servant, Sir F. B. Head, Bart. MELBOURNE. The Hall, Atherstone, Dec. 20, 1838. My Lord,—l have had the honour to receive your Lordship's communication of the 18th inst. As your Lordship in your letter to me of the 26th of September last has objected to my bringing my case " before the Privy Council, before the Judicial Committee thereof, or before a Committee of such Members of the Government as it might deem it advisable to select," and as your Lord ship in declining also to sanction the request contained in ray communication of the 12th inst. has left me " to pursue any enurse which I may consider to be open to me," I beg leave very respectfully to inform your Lordship, that as her Majesty's Government will not sanction any of my requests, I shall feel myself precluded from publishing my despatches, or from furnishing any one with the numbers or dates of those which I am desirous should be produced. Having, however, pledged myself, before my departure from our North American colonies, that on my arrival in England I would in due time endeavour to make known the causes of my abandonment of the Government of Upper Canada, I shall feel it necessary, by the immediate publication of my correspondence with your Lordship, to inform those who are interested in the subject, that if I have not redeemed that pledge, it is because I have been prevented in honour from doing so. With a grateful sense of the freedom with which your Lordship, in verbal communications, has liberally allowed me, without offending you, to speak my mind, I have the honour to remain, very respectfully, Your Lordship's Most humble and obedient servant, To Lord Melbourne, &c. F. B. HEAD. LORD DURHAM. TO THOMAS PROUT, ESQ., STRAND. SIII,—I perceive in The Sun of the 17th inst. a letter addressed to Lord Durham, signed by you, as Chairman of the Deputation appointed at a recent meeting of the West minster Reform Society to present an Address to his Lord ship, which he refused to accept. In order to induce his Lordship to receive the Addresss you tell him that the Society has " no covert or ulterior objects." Now, Sir, to say that Reformers have no ulterior objects, is to talk nonsense. Real reforms are the causes to produce good effects, and ultimately, or in the last con - sequence, the amelioration of the condition of the who! human race, whether at home, in our colonies, or in foreign lands. Whilst you object to "covert objects," why do you yourself covertly insinuate that " some individuals acted at the meeting from conscientious motives and some from evi intentions" ? Whatever might be the differences of opi nion amongst the members of the Westminster Society, and however brusquely expressed, at the meeting you refer to I believe no individual spoke personally disrespectful of Lord Durham—no one acted from evil intentions, but all from conscientious motives, and I include yourself amongst the number. Since you so much dislike " covert proceedings," why have you not the courage to denounce by name the individuals who are vulgar Anti-Aristocrats ? Why did you not call another meeting of the Society to - take the opinions of the members upon the propriety or impropriety of moving his Lordship to accept the Address he had already rejected, instead of concocting in your own laboratory, with the aid of your distinguished political assistant, a soft appeal and misericordium of Lord Durham, not to cast away from his presence the innocents of the deputation, with the men you deem guilty of evil intentions? If you succeed in sooth ing the ferocious indignation of his Lordship, by withdraw ing all irritating colours and language, and thrusting out of sight the commonalty of the Society, and echoing the aris tocratic paeans " Odi profanum vulgus et arces," you may be as good a tactician as you profess yourself, and when " you assure his Lordship that your speech taken from the notes of a short-hand writer, contains the true ground on which the meeting adopted the Address,"—that your speech alone, is the for: el origo of all his Lordship's West minster glory—your modesty and cunning resemble that of the fox in the well, who made use of his neighbours' shoulders to extricate himself from his awkward situation, and to mount into a higher and purer atmosphere. Fie upon you Mr. Prout ! Do you call this backing your friends in the Deputation ? Do you call it being candid to wards Lord Durham to place him under the delusion that you who have a more Garagantuan swallow than those you condemn, which can devour up all sorts of Churches and Chapels, together with many merely political institutions, yet, that you strain at the slightest objects ulterior to his Whig-Conservatism ? I can have no personal grounds of quarrel with you— you could not possibly allude to me as one of the indivi duals of evil intentions, because, so far was I from what you call " nullifying the proceedings of the meeting," that you repeatedly expressed your approbation of my conduct, and even adopted the am en d ments w hi ch I humbly ,sub mitted should be made in the Address, of which you are the foster-father, especially that binding his Lordship to abide by his Glasgow declarations for Household Suffrag, without any qualification of payment of tax es , & c . ; i n con tradistinction to his speech in England, when he introduced a money-qualification, &c., thereby, in lieu of extending the franchise to nearly two millions of additional voters, he reduced it to little, if at all, better than that of the present constituency. My object in writing to you, is to defend the freedom of discussion at public meetings, "however i m _ portant the proceedings may be to the welfare of the country." I think there is more chance of safety to th e country in a multitude of councillors, than in a coterie of gentle shepherds, who, however wise in their own con ceit, may be turned into the tools of covert aristocrats, or of men who do not act from conscientious motives. I do not know whether you have received an answer to your second application to Lord Durham—whether by lulling, titilating, and drugging, you have caught your fish ; if so hold him fast. You must not only draw out Leviathan with your well-baited hook, b ut he must make a covenant with you upon his Glasgow declarations. If you can make him a faithful servant of the public for ever, I will grant that you have trolled to some purpose, and you will prove to those who say we ought " to keep to our own order," and not court the Aristocracy, that it is just possible for Sama ritans to have dealings with the Jews, without being cheated. Whatever favourable reports his Lordship's assiduous friends may make to you of his political symptoms, spare not your medicaments, lest be should have a relapse. Hope the best, but be prepared for the worst. I have the honour to be, Sir, Your most obedient servant, ARTHUR S. WADE, D.D. 20, Pembroke-place, Vauxhall-road, Pimlico, 19th December, 1839. SPIRIT OF THE PUBLIC JOURNALS We learn from the Manchester Times that Mr. R. H. Greg, who spoke so effectively in the meeting of the Cham ber of Commerce of Manchester on Thursday last, and who did not hesitate to declare that he had thoughts of carrying his capital and skill to foreign countries, from an impres sion that it would be impossible to avert the ruin of the manufactures of this country, from the repeal of the Corn laws having been so long delayed, is the largest spinner and manufacturer in this country, and that his firm manufac tures one-hundredth part of all the cotton imported into Great Britain. Both meetings were crowded, but the last particularly so, and, after an adjournment of a week, to afford time for reflection and consideration, the most emi nent merchants and manufacturers of Lancashire, men of all shades of political opinion, by a majority of six to one, adopted, instead of the petition recommend ing the substitution of a low rate o f d u ty t o th present (which was supported by the remaining sixth), an amended petition, declaring that unless the Corn-laws be immediately repealed the destruction of our manufactures is inevitable. The profits of the manufacturers have been so much reduced by the operation of the Corn-laws, that the utmost uneasiness prevails in that body. The opinions of such distinguished commercial men as the speakers at the Manchester meetings, and the startling facts stated by them in support of these opinions, must rouse the country from one end of it to the other. All men who have pro perty embarked in trade must feel that if they do not now bestir themselves to combat the landed monopolists, ruin must soon overtake them. Let every man, then, from the Land's-end to John o'Groat's House, follow the ex ample of the enlightened traders and manufacturers of Manchester. These men have too deep a stake in the country to commence an agitation like the present from any trivial inducement. They suffer more than any other class from agitation ; but like men of sJrisc they have made up their minds to a great sacrifice, once for all, to avert that ruin which is advancing on the country, and which can only be averted by immediate and well con certed efforts. The physical force men have had their day. The most of the working men are, we believe, opening their eyes to the delusions practised cn them. The mei) who have hitherto drawn together at the incendiary meet ings are beginning to abuse each other. A recent number of the Northern Star (the paper of Mr. Feargus O'Con nor), is in keeping with his speech at the meeting in the New-road ; and it proves he means to keep out of harm's way for the future. " We have," says that Paper, " to request the particular attention of our readers to the two letters of Mr. O'Connor, one of which they will find in our third, and the other in our eighth page. From the first of these they will perceive that Mr. O'Connor intends henceforth to carry on his operations for the promotion of the great ends of public justice, simulta neously with those of the other great and patriotic leaders of the people, but without identifying himself with them in such a manner as to be liable to be held acaountable either to, or for, any one but himself. We regret that this should be neces sary ; but, really, on a calm review of the circumstances in which that gentleman has been placed—not less by the watch fulness of timid or jealous friends, than by the vigilance of enemies—we confess that we do not see how he could have acted otherwise without sacrificing some portion, at least, of that usefulness which the public cannot spare." 'That fever may be supposed to have nearly had its course ; and w e trust that men will take warning by the result, and for the present concentrate their efforts to the one great object of the repeal of the Corn-laws, which they may hope to carry. This is a matter which comes home to every man's business and bosom. It is a matter, too. which cannot be delayed with impunity. The population of England advanced slowly till the period when the in ventions of Arkwright, and Watt, and Wedgwood, opened such a wide field for industry. The number of inhabi tants in 1700 was 5,134,516; in 1750, after a lapse of half a century, the population was only 5,829,705, an in crease of 695,189. The population began then to ad vance somewhat more rapidly ; but in 1780, it was still only 7,814,827. But since that time towns have become large cities, and villages towns. The population in 1830 was fourteen millions, and must now be upwards of sixteen millions. In the first half of the century, when with the exception of London and Bristol, the other towns were of comparativey trifling impartance, the greatest pains were taken to keep down the number of the inhabitants, the landlords being well aware that the hands that could not be employed in agriculture must be fed at their cost. In all leases there were provisions against building cottages or allowing settlements, and according to the phrase of a writer of that time, a new married couple of the lower classes was hunted about from place to place like wild beasts. When England changed its character and became a great manufacturing country, the demand for em ployment drew people to the towns, and the laws of settlement were comparatively disregarded. But this enormous population, of which so large a propor tion had been created by our manufactures, nearly nineteen millions of human beings within the limits of this island, must not be sacrificed to the short sighted avarice of greedy landowners. Should our manufacturing industry receive a blow by the creation of rivals in every country of Europe, not not able to dispense with importation from us, but to meet us like the Saxons in every part of the world, it will be but a small consolation to us that the landholders are ruined by the produce of the soil being consumed by pau pers instead omen employed at high wages. We must bear constantly in mind that an old country without manufactures is always a miserable country, for the whole of a population cannot be employed in agri culture (witness Ireland), and to avert the calamity i p ,of decaying Manufacturers and extended pauperism, we must now rally a 5 opp man against the squirearchy. Ministers are so much bcfand up with the aris tocracy, that it would be madness to expect from them any effort which they are not compelled to make. Lord Melbourne fairly told the people that it depended on themselves whether there should be a change in the Corn-laws. But it required neither Lord Melbourne nor a ghost to tell us this. It is obvious that Ministers can only carry a repeal of the Corn-laws by the people demonstrating fn the landowners that it must be carried. We are the last persons in the world to encourage agitation without a reasonable prospect of success but we perceive that the time is comefor agitating to some purposefor a repeal of the Corn-laws ; and our efforts shall not be wanting to second the favourable disposition of our countrymen. We re peat, there must be a long pull, a strong pull, and a pull altogether. Honour to the enlightened men of Manches ter, who have set so noble an example—who have already struck the monopolists so heavy a blow.---,lforning Chronicle. - - Agitation against the Cornrlaws has, at length, com menced in earnest. The Manchester Chamber of Com merce—a body comprehending some of the wealthiest ma nufacturers in the world—has agreed to a petition for the total and unqualified repeal of those enactments against the free importation of foreign grain, on the faith of which English farmers have invested their capitalin the cultivation of their native soil, and on the faith of which, more, over, no inconsiderable portion of the land has been bought. This movement of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce will be imitated without loss of time, by all the commercial and manufacturing bodies throughout Lanca shire and Yorkshire. The political economists, meanwhile, are not idle. They have itinerant lecturers in their pay, to declaim against the " atrocities pf landed monopoly :" whilst all the Ministerial Journals in London, and through out the empire are, at thismoment, busied in denouncing "t, starvation laws," as the chief or sole causes of all our social dis, orders, The existing Corn-laws, in short—and not the exist ing Corn-laws alone, but every system protective of agri cultural industry—will be assailed, during the approaching Session of Parliament, with a degree of ferocity and of pertinacity combined, to which the history of struggles for class ascendancy in this country, furnishes no There can, in point of fact, exist little doubt, that—unless the landowners and farmers shall without delay shake off their inexplicable apathy on this vital 9 uestion—the Corn laws will he repealed within the next six months, and that the country will, by consequence, be involved in a series of convulsive movements, more frightful in their character, than any witnessed since the era of the great civil war. We shall, to-morrow, analyse with some care, the argu ments employed by the speakers in the Manchester Chamber of Commerce—because these arguments will constitute the staple of all the declamation, with which the country is destined to ring for months to. come, To-day, we must content ourselves with adverting to some of the more general features of this great question. Free trade doctrines have, with partial modifi cations, prevailed in this country, for twenty years past ; and each year that has elapsed, since the pernicious doc trines of the economists obtained ascendancy, has witnessed a diminution of the sources of the country's strength, and e country, a corresp on di ng ex tension of misery amongst the producing classes. Th e C urrenc y A c t of 1819 was the first great t riumph th achi eve d by th e f ree -t ra ders over the industry of thoseT b classes, s A s e c s t , icno whose n fis o c s a e t ed , perhaps, half of the property o f machinery, of prosperity theprosperity of the country • necessity, bound up. The spread of un taxedand of free-trade in its various niodifiea: iiion 4 of h bons, has followed rapidly p o greatntahned hand-loom m c w, u h r ee r a e vi ni br y st) uh raivn revolutioneg bpoor e e been of 1819. Nearly a m reduced to a state of of seini_starvatio o n o The been compelled to s e ll t h eir children to thehorrors of factory slavery. The hours of labour have been lengthened t o vast bodies of art isatis > whil s t, i n t h e same pro p or tion, have the wages of these artisansbeen lessened. The march of misery has, in fact, kept pace with the " march of mind :" and yet all the m . iscry, to which a fraudulent standard of ys em of depriving la bour of its just value, by means of unrestricted competition value, together with a fraudulent s t with machinery and with foreigners, have given rise, has not sufficed to procure for the free traders, a sufficiency of that " cheapness" on which their hearts are fixed,. The new Poor-law—with its provisions for directly lowering wages by universally lowering rates—was regained ; and now, the men who first demanded the new Poor-law, de mand that the sacrifice of the farmers and of the land owners shall consummate the sacrifice of the industrious poor. Let it be noted, that with the spread of free trade doctrines at home—and of the consequent increase of social misery amongst the industrious classes—has been exhibited the decline of English influence in every quarter of the world. As our free traders have acquired power over the movements of our Legislature, England has gradually lost or abandoned those sources of power, which previously secured for her the loftiest position amongst the nations of the earth. Under the operations of our politico-economico policy, the fleet of England has been dismantled—her army rendered insufficient for the protection of her colonies—her colonies themselves have been made to appear like burdens—whilst her power to de fend her honour, or to repress the most insolent aggressions is gradually disappearing. The authors of that system of policy, to which we owe nearly all ,the distresses and cala mities of the last twenty years—the men, to whom we owe it, that large bodies of our labouring poor are in a state of desperation—that our colonies are defenceless—and that our own shores are unprotected against foreign invasion— these men, instead of labouring under a sense of humilia tion, when they contemplate the operation of their fatal principles, have the hardihood to maintain that their quack medicines have failed to exhibit all the beneficial pro perties of the fabulous elixir vita., only because these drugs have not been swallowed in sufficient abundance. " Let the dose be doubled—such is their cry—" and the memory of all past failures will be lost. Let commerce be altogether unshackled—let the Corn-laws, in short, be re pealed—and England will soon assume the aspect of Ely sium." The proposition of these ingenious prescribers for the national diseases, has, it must be admitted, in the cir cumstances of the case, the merit of modesty. Not content with robbing millions of the labouring poor of a consider able proportion of their wages, the free traders now demand the confiscation of all farming capital—of three-fourths of the value of all the land in the kingdom—together with one-half, at least, of those reduced wages which the use of machinery, and the operation of free trade still permit our artisans, our mechanics, and our unskilled labourers to earn. Those noisy advocates of free trade in corn never tire of enlarging on their assumed importance to the community— and on the vast amount of capital, which they re present. Let us recall to the memories of these gentlemen, certain facts, of which they are disposed, somehow, to approve themselves strangely forgetful. We are, certainly, little disposed to underrate th e impor tance of foreign trade (so long as it is conducted on sound principles) or, to treat lightly the amount of capital em barked in it :—but we cannot forget, that the importance of the classes connected with the land directly and indi rectly, is more than ten times greater than that of the classes interested in our foreign trade. The whole amount of the capital embarked in those pursuits, which could, by possibility, be rendered more lucrative by the influence of free trade principles, has never been estimated at more than two hundred and ten millions—whilst the amount of capital invested in land by the owners and occupiers, and in those trades which are intimately connected with the land, has been computed to exceed two thousand seven hundred and fifty millions ! The owners of the two hun dred millions, therefore, in demanding a repeal of the Corn-laws, are simply demanding nearly the total confisca tion of property, exceeding in amount, their own, multi plied ten-fold. We shall, to-morrow, notice the specific arguments of the Manchester anti-Corn-law agitators.— ilforiiing Herald. The renegade Baronet of Cumberland has been exhibit ing for the especial amusement of the boys of the University of Glasgow. These youths, it seems, under the tuition of their Tory parents and Professors, have elected Sir James the Lord Rector of their University, and, in return for the honour, he has treated them to a world of words in the shape of a speech. The apostate's oration was partly of a poli tical, partly of a literary character. Of the literary portion of his harangue we shall say nothing ; it is undeserving of observation, consisting, as it does, almost exclusively of the merest common-place, and not being redeemed by a single brilliant conception, or striking sentiment. If any of the youths themselves could not have produced, at a day's notice, an essay of equal literary merits, they would richly deserve the sererest punishment which is ever administered in the in stitution. The political portion of the newly-fledged Lord Rector's speech, was such as any one who has watched his conduct for the last four years might have expected. So thormaghly and so glibly did he talk Toryism, that his audience must at times have forgotten that he ever pro fessed an opposite creed. The principles which he advo cated four years ago, and which he advocated with a vio lence peculiar to himself, were denounced in his Glasgow address as revolutionary in the highest degree. The party with whom he formerly acted, came in, as a matter of course, for a liberal share of the renegade's abuse. Their object is to overturn the throne, and lay the altar in the dust. There is no religion, no loyalty, no patriotism, among the Libe rals. It follows, then, that Sir James himself must have been neither religious, loyal, nor patriotic when he figured in the ranks of the Reformers, applauding to the echo the leading performers in the French Revolution of 1830, and all but fell down to worship the tri-coloured flag. Toryism must be a singularly powerful moral agent when it can at once transform an irreligious, a disloyal, and unpatriotic individual, as Sir James by implication admits himself to have been during the greater part of his life, into a pious, loyal, and patriotic person. The re jected of Cumberland, after having exhausted his stock of abusive epithets when speaking of his former principles and former party, bethought himself of trying his hand at a little praise of the alliance between Church and State. Here he soon found that lie reckoned without his host. Scotland was not the proper soil for the reception of such doctrines. The shouts of disapprobation, even from his packed audience, at once drowned his voice and deprived the world of the serious loss sustained by the non-delivery of that eloquence on this favourite topic of his, which was doubtless burning within him. It appears that this unex pected burst of disapprobation so disconcerted the Cum berland Baronet, that, after several ineffectual attempts to proceed with his speech, he found himself obliged abruptly to resume his seat. Poor Sir James ! And did he travel all the way from Cumberland to Glasgow to make a speech, and, eft or all, be obliged to stop short in the middle of it? —Morning Advertiser. THE SUN, LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1838. MONEY AND CITY NEWS. (PROM TIIg MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY.) TIMES.—Some notice has been drawn in the city to the circumstance that the French Minister of Commerce has addressed to the Commercial Chambers of all the great ports a circular, stating that a letter, dated Bomb :my, informed him " that most English houses there addressed urgent demands to England for an early supply of pro visions ; but that he gave to the French houses this early intimation, that they might send them . out before the supplies from England can arrive there." This circular letter of the French Minister was written the day that the mail from Bombay, by way of Alexan dria and Marseilles, arrived at Paris, and it has been remarked upon it as very unlikely that such a let ter should have been written from a French house at Bombay to a mercantile house in France, be cause it is improbable that a French house should know that most English houses have sent such orders hoine for certain named articles ; and, even if it were so, a mercantile house in France is not likely to have gone to t h e Minister of Commerce with the lett e r, that he might i ssue a circular to encourage operations which the house would naturally wish to make itself with as little competi tion as possible. Hence the conclusion arrived at is, that the French Ajinister must have read the contents of the English letters from Bombay passing through Paris to Eng land, and also that the letters from England to the East Indies are made the same use of, This view of the case i 3 strengthened by the fact, that the French government, as part of the arrangements under dis. pussion for the communication with India, ref us e to allow sealed bags u n der special messenger s to pass through h their count. Hence the merchants express their fears, that that if the English Government will not insist firmly on this condition, and not enter into any arrangement without it, they will deliver the interest of the English traders into the hands of their French rivals. It is to be hoped that the suspicions o e ni of u may t ay e cannotprove e b e too withoutpehhe foundation,l ystated, and but, the having once n arisen, French, who Corn t are h never deficient in susceptibility o n the score of character, sourcemay at of oncethe set nt.n r the ma t emna conveyedtter at rest te t b h ye Minister t p g coerce. HERALD.—We have received th i s m o rning, for the perusal and edification of those sap ient fre q ue n t ers of the Stock Exchange who have embarked their property in the Peninsular bonds, a flattering production from her Most Faithful Majesty Donna Maria of Portugal. The prospects held out by the youthful Queen of an early improde f oent in the public resources of her kingdom, and of a resumption of the payment of the dividends on the foreign debt which have been so long ousponded, would seem to be considered pretty sure to be realised by the tiding ciazs of persons to whom we have alltled, thasMuPh as speculation upon a mote pltel4e4 scale than we have had occasion to notice for a long time past was fißce the po ll _ sequence ; and an advance of no less than i to 1 one per cent. on Saturday's quotations was, for the moment, established, the Five per Cent. Bonds being done at 30 to and the Three per Cents. at liti to 2f) ; the former, how. ever, eventually receded to 29i 30, and the latter to l We wish that the hopes expressed by her Portuguese Ma jesty, and which are, it is needless to say, most sincerely participated in by the poor bondholders, may not be disap pointed. The Lisbon Cabinet is, however, in too ricketty a state to warrant us in giving encouragement to what ap pears to us to be so pure a delusion, and we are confirmed in the view we take of the Queen's affairs by the admission contained in the speech respecting the disturbed condition of several parts of the interior. Her Majesty's " brave troops" have, we suspect, still their work to do before the successor of Remechido and his formidable band of adherents can be effectually extinguished, and anything approaching to pub lic order established throughout the monarchy. The Spanish securities have sympathised but little with the Portuguese, a circumstance that is rather a matter of astonishment to the holders of the former, considering how much, and how uniformly, this has been the case on previ ous occasions. The Active Bonds, including the arrear of dividends, were done at 161 to h, Passive at 31 to and Deferred at 6 to 7. The accounts received this morning from Brussels and Antwerp are less desponding than those obtained from those cities during the past week. The individual whom the creditors of the Bank of Belgium had, in the first in stance, fixed upon as the party they were desirous of charg ing with the investigation of the affairs of this establishment, but who at first declined the trust, had, it seems, at length com plied with their wishes. M. Mettenius, of whosebusiness-like talents and integrity report speaks highly, was about to enter forthwith upon the labours assigned him, in conjunction wiih MM. Anspach (the President of the Tribunal of Com merce) and Everard Goffid, with whom the Directors of the sank will, of course, co-operate. It is understood that the active business of the concern remains suspended, as suggested at the meeting held at the Hotel de Ville on the 17th instant, for the space of three months. The transactions of Foreign bills this afternoon (as for to-morrow, which will be a close holiday) were at a gene rally higher rate of exchange ; as regards Antwerp there was no advance, but on all the principal cities the drawer obtained less favourable terms than on Friday last ; Paris was done at 25 571 to 62i ; Hamburg at 13 91 to ; Amsterdam at 12 31 ; Antwerp at 12 2i ; and Frankfort at 151 tot. POST.—There has been scarcely any business transacted to-day, but the appearance of the English Stock Market generally is decidedly firmer than it was on Saturday. Con sols have advanced to 93g to 94 for the opening, and Ex chequer Bills have rallied to 655. to 675. prem., which is an improvement in the premium of 2s. since the close of the week. Belgian Stock is again lower, being last marked at 97 to to 98. Dutch Securities are firm, the Five per Cents. at looi to and the Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 54/ to 55. Portuguese Stocks underwent an advance of one per Cent. in the early part of the day, in consequence of the receipt of the speech of the Queen of Portugal on opening the Legislative Session, the allusion to the foreign creditors being considered, in some degree, satisfactory ; but the rise was not maintained to the close of business, for the Five per Cents. left off at 29} to 30, and the Three per Cents. at 19i to 20, after having been about one half per cent. higher during the day. Brazilian closed at 76i to 771 ; Colombian, 251- to / : Mexican, 22 to 23 ; and Chilian, 25 to 26. Shares on the whole are firm ; Birmingham (old) were last marked at 75 to 77 prem. ; ditto (new) 23 to '24 prem. ; Southampton (old) 44 to 45 per share ; ditto (new) 19 to 20 prem ; Great Western, 10 to 11 prem. ; North Mid land, par to 1 prem. ; Brighton, 3i to 31 dis. ; Blackwall, 2 to 14 dis. ; Midland counties, 15 to 14 dis. ; and Man chester and Leeds, 18 to 20 prem. The exportation of the precious metals from the port of London, for the week ending Saturday last the 22d inst., consisted, according to the official returns, of 2,712 ounces of gold bars, which were sent to Hamburg ; 11,876 ounces of gold coin, and 46,977 ounces of silver. Of the gold, 6,026 ounces were forwarded to Hamburg ; 4,500 ounces to Bombay ; and 1,350 ounces to Madras and Calcutta. The silver was disposed of as follows :-19,060 ounces to Bombay ; 12,677 ounces to Madras and Cal cutta ; 12,000 ounces to Hamburg ; and 3,240 ounces to the West Indies. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. HA7'TON-GARDEN. LIBERTY OF THE SUBJECT.—Yesterday an athletic young man, having the appearance of a countryman, was brought from St. Giles's station-house in the custody of a poliiceman of the E division, the police sheet containing, a charge of assault against him. The constable being sworn, said that he had no charge to make against the prisoner. He merely took him into cus tody on the charge of assault by another person, and locked him up in the station-house on Saturday night last, but ❑obody was present to prosecute him. Mr. BENETT inquired whether he had been locked up ever since Saturday night, or whether he had been out on bail ? Constable—He has been in custody ever since. Mr. BENETT-it is very wrong. The Attorney-Gene ral had given an opinion upon the subject, by which Magis trates were ',gaily guided. He discharged the prisoner, and trusted that such cases might not be brought before him in future. MARLB OR 0 UGII-S TREE T. A young woman, named Salmon, a loose fish, was brought before Mr. Conant, charged with having stolen a " hook," w ith a p i ece o f b ee f attached to it. The prisoner was on the forage for a Christmas dinner, when she was observed to make off with a prime leg of pork, omitting the trifling circumstance of paying the owner for it. Sh e was f o ll owed, and suffered to go at large, after giving up the meat. In a few minutes she was found lying on the ground, with a butcher's hook and a piece of beef, evidently the result of a more successful effort in the pil fering line. Mr. CONANT remarked that the prisoner had probably caught herself with the " hook," as it was not unlikely the butcher to whom it belonged would be found by its means. The prisoner was remanded. TIIE STAND IN TRAFALGAR-SQUARE.—Carter, a COM mon informer, summoned several hackney-coach proprietors for plying for hire in Trafalgar-square. Mr. CONANT !o3ked at t be Act under which the alleged offence was l a i d, and found that the words were, " It shall be unl aw f u l to stand or ply for hire in any street, common passage, or alley." The word square was omitted, and as it was held that Trafalgar-square did not come within the designation of either street, common passage, or alley, the summons was discharged. Carter said the result of the decision would be that Tra falgar-square, or any other square, would soon be blocked up by coach.stands, all of which would be beyond the reach of the law. UNION-HALL. William Stewart, George Millington, Richard Shaw, Hai riot Jackson, and Elizabeth Warren, were brought be fore Mr. Traill, and committed for coining. John Yates, a clerk in the service of the Directors of the London and Southampton Railway Company was com mitted for embezzling 5.5/. 95., the property of his em ployers. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday IVilliam Smith, a well-dressed young man, said to be foreman to a respectable carpenter in the country, and John Neale, a youth about 14 years of age, were brought up in custody and placed at the bar before the sitting Magistrate, Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having refused to pay their fare for a journey by one of the car riages belonging to the London and Birmingham Railway Company. The charge against them was made in conformity with No. 1 of the Company's by-laws. It appeared that for the involuntary offence they had been locked up all night. Mr. RAWLINSON (to Mr. Bedford, the Superintendent of the railway police)—This seems a very strange and harsh proceeding ; because a man happens to lose, perhaps, his ticket on the road, ho is to be consigned to a station house and locked up for the night. This may be railway law, but if a man travels on the common road by coach and refuses to pay his fare on the ground of his having no money, such fare becomes a debt for which the party may be sued, but cannot on the instant be consigned by the coachman or his employer to the cus tody of a constable. Smith—l'll pay, your Worship ; but I must say that I this don't way at all lapthpirnokvei.to,sf too bad. l‘ir. itw eon looked u p a ll n i g h t in their Id p o o n w 't e s r ee to im prison a you, when a coach p ro prietor running his vehicle on the common road woul d hav e done no such thing. The fares were ultima t e l y settled, and the defendants railway A co L m i p N a s n7 l should u l t d hink have so it too,in were discharged. A gentleman who had been listening with attention flow long were you detained, Sir ? to the proceedings he e stopped forward, and said that he had very recently been detained at one of the London and Birmingham Railway stations owing to not being able to find his ticket. if liy over again. I wish $i now The l‘lr. irt Gent i4 le i m " an N - -- Upwards of two hours ; and as I was I did not pay the fare de now to ask you if the public afo bound to pnt up with such proceedings? for on e 1n threatened de manded, n ded, I t was a bes compelledbrought e ndt i r h et e o r i t e pi Mr. RAWLINSON--I, should imagine that the • 411 look carefully over the that 3 I can U 0 anything for you in the matter, you may depend upon it I will. If you call at the office again in a few days, sir, I'll give 4 n answer. you publ ic Act, c,2 ( E Faulkener, was Yeste r d a y placed a t th e b ar , in com pany w ith illar . y Faulkener, charged ctn suspicion of ulkener, alias Potter, having committed a daring highway robbery, att;:nthd with cons:derable violence. Mr. GREGORIE remanded the prisoners, to give time for the necessary inquiries. A letter was found on the male prisoner from his brother, in which the latter said he had heard that the prisoner had been transported, assigning this as a reason for not haying written to him before, THAMES OFFICE. Yesterday Peter Murphy, a boiler maker, was brought before Mr. BALLANTINE and Mr. THISLETON, a county Magistrate, on a charge of assaulting Sarah Douglas, a young woman, and beating her. The complainant, a dress-maker, on being sworn, deposed as follows :—He met me at a concert at the Bee Hive beer-shop. When I went home he followed me and knocked me down, and robbed me of my clothes. The prisoner, on being called upon, said he was a boiler maker ; he was very tipsy when he struck the young woman. Mr. BALLANTINE-BUt, whether drunk or sober, men don't ill-use women and knock them down. It appears that you most grossly 11-used this girl, who had given you no pro vocation, and we find you guilty of this atrocious assault. The policeman saw you knock her down, and after that you knocked her down again, and tore all the clothes off her back. If you had any manhood about you, you would not have done it. You will pay a fine of 5/. to the Queen, or be imprisoned for two months. Mr. BALLANTINE—NOW, take care this beer-shop is looked after. This is the second case arising out of the concert at the beer-shop this day. Mr. Valentine—lt shall he attended to, gentlemen. Mr. THISLETON—Beer-shop-keepers have no right to keep open until one o'clock in the morning. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, DEC. 24. HOPKINSON AND ANOTHER. V. WILSON. Mr. Sergeant WILDE and Mr. CHANNEL appeared for the plaintiffs, Mr. KELLY and Mr. HOGGINS for the de fendant. This was an action brought to recover 691. 75., the value of a quantity of corn supplied to the order of a person named Edwards, who was, as the plaintiffs alleged, the mere agent of the defendant. It appeared that Edwards had been coachman for several years to the proprietor of the Streatham coaches ; and that from the month of August, 1836, until April, 1838, that concern had been carried on in the name of Edwards, as proprietor. To that concern the corn in question was supplied ; and the ques tion in the cause was whether Edwards or the defendant was the substantial owner and proprietor of those coaches, and the person for whose interest that con cern was carried on. On the part of the plaintiffs evi dence was produced to show that the defendant gave the necessary orders for the prosecution of the business, re ceived weekly accounts from Edv‘ards of his receipts and payments, and finally sold the whole business and the stock to another person, without consulting Edwards on the sub ject. On the other side an agreement, dated August, 1836, was put in, by which the defendant sold this coaching con cern to Edwards for upwards of 4001., to be repaid by in stalments of 71. per week. That debt was secured by a warrant of attorney. It was contended for the defendant that the money had been handed over to him only in the character of banker for Edwards. The Learned Judge left it to the Jury to say whether the defendant or Edwards was the substantial owner, for whose benefit this concern was carried on. The Jury found a verdict for the plaintiffs —Damages ; 69/. 7s. This was the last day of the present sittings. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COM PA NY. A special general meeting of this company having been convened by the Directors to be held at the City of London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, on Thusday, the 20th instant, for the purpose of receiving and considering the reports of Mr. Wood and Mr. Hawkshaw, the shareholders accord ingly met at the place and hour appointed. W. U. Stars, Esq., having taken the chair, the Secretary read a notice which had been subsequently published, stating that it would be proposed that this meeting should be adjourned to the 9th of January next, in consequence of Mr. Wood's report not having been received by the Directors. Mr. Glens, a Director, then moved, in pursuance of such notice, that the present meeting be adjourned until Wed nesday, the 9th of January, 1831. Mr. VOUSLEY, a shareholder, begged leave, before the motion was put, to ask whether Mr. Wood's report had in fact, been received or not ? The CHAIRMAN replied that the report in substance cer tainly had, within these few days, been received ; but there was an appendix still in preparation, from which a good deal of information was expected to be gathered, and which, of course, had not yet been received. Mr. VOUSLEY thought there could be no objection, under the circumstances, to adjourn the meeting to the day pro posed, since it appeared that the Directors were not in pos session of anything to communicate to the proprietors. The CHAIRMAN—WiII you second the motion then for an adjournment ? M. VOUSLEY had no objection to do so, inasmuch as he hoped before the day fixed on should arrive, Mr. Wood's report and appendix would be prepared and laid before the Directors. The CHAIRMAN said he had no doubt that a copy of the report and appendix would be in the hands of every pro prietor some nine or ten days previously to their meeting again. It was solely with this view that so long an adjourn ment had been thought advisable, it being the wish of the Directors to consult the convenience of the shareholders, by affording them an opportunity to consider the report before they should be called upon either to adopt or reject it. It was proper he should state that the proposed meet ing would be held at the London Tavern, and not at the City of London Tavern, as the ter house, he understood, would at that period be shut up. The question was then put and agreed to, and the meet ing adjourned. THE ISLINGTON TORIES. We made our readers acquainted some weeks ago with the scandalous conduct of the Islington Tories, who hastily placed the son of the late Vestry-clerk in his father's place, as if to huddle up all the accounts and keep them in secresy and safety from investigation, the said late Vestry-clerk having laid violent hands on himself; and died a great de faulter to individuals and the parish. We then stated that the Islington Tories were so eager to put the son of the wretched delinquent in his father's place, that they out raged all decency by their haste, and all legality by a depar ture from all precedent and rule. The whole metropolis, as well as all the right-thinking persons in the parish, felt insulted and disgusted by the outrage. Some of the Vestry men who take an interest in the question, immediately after the election was over sent a requisition to the Church-warden, requesting him to submit this subject of the legality of the late election to the Vestry the next time it assembled, which he flatly refused, on the ground that he would not "desecrate" the Church. On the occasion of the election this very Churchwarden, especially, bad desecrated the Church by partiality and injustice, and his party by the most unseemly violence, and then he refuses to have it" desecrated " by any attempt to do justice and set right his own illegal proceed ings ! Nnt deterred, lmwever, by this refusal from prose cuting the subleet, an the Vestry being usembled on Thurs day night to make a rate, Mr. Itcdgskin rose to move that the rate be postponed, but before he could get half through his observations, the patrons of the late defaulter and his successor broke into loud clamours, and the same Church warden, who had formerly refused to put an amendment which had been legally submitted to him, proceeded to put an amendment which had been only announced, and never placed in his hands, nor formally made, and, on his own au thority, decided that it was lost and the rate carried. Against such arbitrary and tyrannical proceedings the party which impugns the legality of the late election had nothing to do but protest, and declare the rate which was so voted by the clamour of the Tory Trustees against an amendment which had never been actually made, to be illegal. The party, protesting against the whole proceedings, then left the Church, after it had been again, in the language of the Tories, " desecrated" by their scandalous injustice, clamour, nod violence. There is now nothing left for the inhabitants but to refuse the payment of the rate, and throw on the Tory Trustees the onus of defending their illegal conduct. The public will learn, we believe, without surprise, that the hasty, scandalous, and illegal election of the son of a de faulter to fill his father's place, while all inquiry into the public accounts was illegally shut out, is thus likely to in volve this parish in litigation, confusion, and expense, and in the end bring shame and disgrace on the violent authors of this gross outrage on public morals and public decency. BLAvNAvoN.—On Thursday five more bodies were found also in a side-stall, similarly and nearly situate to the place where the othora were discovered, Another body is yet missing which, when found, will complete the number of the ill-fated victim to the late calamity,--Here ford Times. On Wednesday, Mr. Wombwell, of the menagerie, Rhet4eld, treated 544 boys, and 380 girls, attending the Lancasterian schools, with a view of his exhibition. Christmas week, and that in which Lord Mayor's Day takes place, are always the two weeks when the apo thecaries and the sellers of pills have the most business. Last week a potatoe was drawn by Mr. Francis Plyming, of St. Cl emen t s , near T ruro , weighing 2lb s . , and measuring 14 inches in circumference. On Wednesday an explosion (O,IA place in a coal pit at Moxley, by whiett O A individuals were serio444 burned. NEWCASTLE MURDER. LATEST PARTICULARS. This week some additional circumstances have transpired, which we proceed to lay before our readers. It has already been stated that from the day on which the murder was discovered, rumours have prevailed that Mary Walker, the housekeeper of Bolam, had given false testimony, and that she now contradicts flatly her own previous deposition, and states that she was surprised at finding her master at home, instead of being at the bank ; that it was be himself who broke the window ; that she, on entering the house, saw some person busily engaged at the fire—who whispered —(and then she recognized that it was her master)-- " Hush ! hush ! Mary ! it is me ! I have come for a key." She lighted a candle, and he went into the parlour, where he continued engaged at the bureau several minutes. The police, it appears, on prosecuting their search in Bolam's house, found upwards of 401. in gold—nearly half of the sum being in guineas —hid in the parlour behind some books ; and they discovered also the key of the safe, which, according to his statement, he had placed in his desk at the bank. The Gateshead Observer—from which paper, as well as from the Carlisle Journal and the Newcastle Courant, the following particulars are obtained—states that when it was mentioned to Bolam that the absence of the key from his desk in the bank, in connection with his statement that he had deposited it therein, had given rise to considerable dis cussion, he at once said that he could explain the matter. The key, he stated, was usually hung on a nail, in a recess of the desk, and would not be readily found, except by those who knew its wonted place. He then described the position of the key ; and on proceeding to the bank, the police found it in the place to which Bolam referred. The effect of the housekeeper's evidence (observes the Courant) will be at once apparent, though it is not, per haps, so pointedly against the accused as was originally be lieved. It is observable, that it does not directly contra dict any statement made by Bolam, for he said nothing about a pane of glass, nor did he positively assert that he found his housekeeper at home when he got there ; but the impression made by his evidence on this point certainly is, that lie found her in the house ; for immediately after stating that he went home, he details the conver sation which he had there with his servant, without say ing one word about her being absent at first, or about his experiencing any difficulty in getting into the house. The circumstances deposed to by the girl occurred, too, at a period of time when no asserted insensibility on his part, nor anything else, could make him doubtful as to what had taken place. And notwithstanding the girl's declaration that no person had advised her to depart from the truth in her first statement, it is absolutely incredible. The account sbe gave to Mould, before she saw Bolam at Mr. Glen ton's, privately, was correct, as she now admits ; and is it likely that she would vary that account, unless she bad been instigated to do so ? She concealed facts before the Coroner, the revelation of which would have gone far to implicate Bolam ; and it only required one such act of ad mitted concealment and departure from the truth to throw discredit on the whole of his story. Three ledgers, of the most recent dutes, have been taken from amongst the bank books, and have no doubt been con sumed in the fire. They contain the recent entries of the deposits, with the dates of each. It so happens, however, there remains an abstract of the gross sum due to each de positor, consequently the business of the bank is not at all impeded, although it may be difficult to ascertain at present the precise amount of interest due to each. Another account which has been discovered is this. On the morning of the fire one of the officers of police picked up three memorandum books from amongst the rubbish off the fire, tied together with string, which were partially burnt, and, on examination, marks of blood were f o und. On a careful examination of their contents, they appear to have belonged to a man named Rigge, once a clerk in the bank, but at his death Mr. Belem was made sole executor , and received possession of his books and papers. An adjourned meeting of the parishioners of Ham mersmith, was held on Tuesday, when, after much discus sion, a poor -rate was for the present refused under circum stances which will be understood from the following resolu tion, which was passed unanimously :—" That this vestry has heard with regret the statements made by the overseers relative to the present position of the poor rate collection, an d d ep l ores the necessity which exists for calling this year for a larger amount of rate than has been levied for the two previous years, the rate gradually increasing as the Kensington Union acquires age. That this vestry is of opinion that prompt and de cisive measures are required to be taken by the Board of Guardians of the Kensington Union with regard to the collection of the rate applied for this day, as well as of the arrears of rates previously granted, in order to prevent farther loss to the parish, and that this vestry be adjourned to Friday, the 28th inst., to receive the auditors' report on the collector's accounts, and to make a rate ; and that the overseers be requestedAp represent to the Board of Guardians the state of the 'Proceedings, and of the cir cumstances which have taken- place, and on the part of the parish to request the suspension of any further call until after the day above stated." _ - -- FOREIGN SPIRITS, HIGHLAND MALT, and CORK WHISKIES, in Glass Bottles, at per dozen:-- Choice Old Pale Brandy, as imported Cognac Brandy (very old) 6O Hollands, Schiedam Jamaica Rum ..275. to 33 Highhnd Malt Whiskey, I I per cent. over proof 40 Old Cork Whiskey 36 The above Whiskies are old in bottle, possessing their Original strength, and have acquired a peculiar fine flavour. Single bottles may be had as samples. Bottles 3s. per dozen, Hampers Is. per dozen. CURRALL and SON, 35, Bishops,rate-street Within. _ ENGLISH SILVER WATCHES.-- A. B. SAVORY and SONS, Watchmakers, No. 9, Cornhillv London (opposite the Bank of England), submit for se lection i l very large STOCK o f SILVER WATCHES c the whole of sch! ed are made and finished under the careful inspection of exerienc workmen on th e i r own premises, and each warranted for coffee' performance. Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with double-backed engine -turned cases , warranted £4 o Fine Vertical Watches, jewelled, with seconds' hand, and double-backed cases, warranted Patent detached Lever Watches, capped, jewelled in four holes, with seconds' hand, and double-backed cases, warranted ... Either of the above in silver hunting cases, 10s. 6d. extra. A large vari e t y o f second-hand Silver Watches, which have been carefully examined, and can be warranted at 2/. 2s. each. N.B. Second-hand Watches purchased in exchange. SILV —.ER EDGED PLATED DISHE S T. COX SAVORY offers for selection, arranged in his Silo; Rooms, a most ex t ens i ve var i ety of CORNER DISHES. Set of Four varies in price from Seven to Ten GP.lneas, T. SAVORY, Workin g G o ld sm i t h , Silversmith, and Watchmake r , 47, Cornhill, London (Seven Doors from Gracechurch-street):,,be N.B.—The H an dl es are made to remove from the Covers. 1 Covers may th us b e used as Dishes ; and the Set will form Eight Dishes, when required. B IR THS. On the 20th inst., at Tunbridge Wells, the Lady Sarah Taylor? ofa son. On the 21st inst., in Great Coram-street, Mrs. Charles Weston, ofa son, which died soon after. MARIE At Calcutt a , on the 18th o f October D. , Albert J. de noe be P ied Larpent, Esq., eldest son of G. G. de H. Larpent, Esq. ! of 11°e hampton, Surrey, to Catherine Lydia, daughter of the late car tain L. Shaw, of the Bengal Army. es On the 20 t h i nst . , at St. Mary ' s, Bryanston-square, Mr. Jar„,,, Orchard, of A mwe ll- street, Claremont-square, and of LaunOries,7,-; Cornwall, to M ary L ou i sa, daughter of N. Levien, Esq., 0f e Montagu-street, Montagu -square. Jofill On the 20th in s t., at *fr St. Mary' s , Bryanston-square, Fos. Hullat, of Berners-street, to Caroline, only daughter of ter, of Wigmore-street. U pp er Elizab r On the '2oth inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square, Mary, only daughter of the late J. Robinson, Esq., of e Met- Eaton-street, Pimlico, to E. C. Metcalf, Esq., son of calfe, Esq., of Camberwell. On the 18th i nst., at St. Pancras New Church, Mr' William Holderness, of Camden -town, to Elizabeth, daughter of Calvert, Esq., of Kentish-town. DIED. On the 17th inst., at Brighton, Mrs. Bevan, aged 91. On the 17th inst., at George's- s t reet , Edi n burgh, Elimbeth eldest daughter of the late Mr. Wallace, of Parliament-stree t, Westminster. On the 19th inst., at Denmark -hill, Camberwell, John Ma nn ' Esq., late of the Stock Exchange, aged 88. On the 19th inst. ; at the Terrace, Putney, late of Curzon street, Francis Laking, Esq., aged 73. On the 19th inst., in Devonshire-place, Edgeware-road, M rs ' Helen Hunt er , w id ow o f th e late M r , A ndrew Hunter, of the Haymarket. On the 20th inst., in London, George Gwynne, Esq., of Brigli• tan, aged 57. On the 21st inst., Mr. Edwin Alderman, of Barbican, age d 43 ' many years a Member of the Corporation of the City of London. On the 21st inst., Mary A nn, eldest daughter of Mr. Henry Bevington, of Surrey-square, aged 28. On the 21st inst., at Islingt on , A nn Elizabeth, secon d d a ughter i aged 27. of of O th n e ltalite 23 e Jo d hn;Wainew r i g h t, Esq.inst., Martha, the wife of John Simpson, Esq. , Carlisle-street, Soho, aged 66. On the 19th inst., aged 70, Marv, the wife of Mr. Hen r i Crawter, sen., of Cheshunt, Herts, suiveyor. On the 19 t h inst the infant son of George Bridge, Esq., of Wood Ho use, Shepher ' d's Bush. On the 20th inst, at Old Field Lodge, near Maidenhead! Berks, aged 94, Sir William Herne, Knight, a Magistrate and De p ut y - Lieutenant of th e county, formerly Alderman of Castl e Bayn ar d W ard, and in 1794 Sheriff of London and Middlesex. On the 20th inst., Ann Adams, second daughter of Mr. Joh° Dewey, of Holles-street, Cavendish-square, aged 7. On the 20th inst., at Coburg. place, Kennington, Mary, the wife of J o h n D av i es, of Woodford Wells, Essex, aged 57. On the 21st inst., at St. John's-wood, Sarah, the wife of Cap tain Richard Drew. L.po i don: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, at The Sun Offiee No. 112, IStalutd, in the come/ of Middlesex. —Tuesday , Deoetaer 25, 1836. ( It!